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Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) won his fourth Drivers’ Championship in 2017 with nine Grand Prix victories while Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) was a distant second with 5 victories. Mercedes retained the Constructors’ Championship for a fourth consecutive year with the W08 EQ Power+ entered in 2017.

An emotional Lewis Hamilton reflects on a fantastic year after claiming his 88th pole position : “The journey this year has been so special, so different but I am forever grateful for the lessons learnt. The growth all round brings me such pride and joy. Big thank you to my team, Mercedes AMG F1, for continuing to […]

Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus, engineer and inventor, seen here in 1981 with Elio de Angelis for whom he had great affection, was famous for his very interesting quotes : Adding power makes you faster on the straights, subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere. Simplify, then add lightness. Rules are for the obedience of fools […]

Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) narrowly beat Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren-Mercedes) and Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams-BMW) to the 2003 Formula 1 Drivers’ World Championship. Picture left to right: Montoya, Schumacher, Raikkonen with Bernie Ecclestone at Indianapolis 2003.

Belgian Eddy Joosen and Frenchman Jean-Claude Andruet won the 1977 24 Hours of Spa in a Juma-entered BMW 530i. Second were Gerry Marshall and Peter Brock in a Dealer Team Vauxhall-entered Vauxhall Magnum. Picture below: The winning BMW 530i of Joosen and Andruet, in the pouring rain, on its way to victory in the 1977 […]

Stefan Bellof (1957-1985) was a German racing driver. He was a prodigy in the mould of Gilles Villeneuve and Ayrton Senna. He competed with the Tyrrell Formula One team during 1984 and 1985. Sadly he was killed in an accident during the 1985 1000 km of Spa aboard a Porsche 956.

Mario Andretti joined the Scuderia for the 1971 season as a third driver, alongside Belgian Jacky Ickx and Swiss Clay Regazzoni and he soon won the 1971 South African Grand Prix, on the beautiful Kyalami race track. It was an emotional, but only, Formula 1 Grand Prix win in a Ferrari, for the great American […]

Once in a while, Thierry Boutsen, former three-time Formule 1 Grand Prix winner, is tempted by a few laps in an ancient Formula 1 car. The Belgian driver, who never was a Lotus driver, tried the ex- Satoru Nakajima Lotus-Judd 101, during the ‘Sound of Engine’ week-end at Suzuka.

The 1974 1000 km of Spa were won by Jean-Pierre Jarier and Jacky Ickx in one of the two Matra 670’s. The Matra was pressed hard by the Mirage-Ford of Derek Bell, and the French team was grateful to have hired Ickx, always so competitive, on this fast circuit.